Indian Sub-continent

KANPUR: In view of forthcoming Kumbh Mela on Sangam in Allahabad, the leather tanneries in Jajmau will remain closed for three months.

This order was passed to make the Ganges clean.

A decision to this effect has been taken in a meeting chaired by Kalpana Awasthi, Principal Secretary (Environment). However, the UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will make the final decision, in a meeting to be held on October 5.

United Nations; 21 Sep 2018: Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina criticised Myanmar for failing to fulfil its commitment to take back Rohingya refugees.

Hasina was speaking to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday.

Vivek Tiwari 38, an Apple executive, has been shot dead by UP police. Two constables Prashant Chowdhary and Sundeep, have been arrested.

Vivek Tiwari was travelling in his car with a colleague, Sana Khan at around 01:30 am when the incident took place.

Srinagar, Sept 28; PTI:  Normal life was affected in Kashmir on Friday due to a strike called by separatists to protest killing of a civilian during a cordon and search operation in the city yesterday.

Authorities have imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar to maintain law and order.

Muzaffarnagar, Sep 29 (PTI) A branch manager of the Overseas Bank was arrested in connection with alleged theft of Rs 18 lakh from an ATM in Shamli, police said Saturday.

Robin Bansal, who was absconding, was arrested Friday and more than Rs 14 lakh was seized from his possession, Superintendent of Police Dinesh Kumar said.

Jalpaiguri (WB), Sep 27; PTI:  A 19-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped in an under-construction building in Jalpaiguri district, police said Thursday.

The incident happened on Tuesday evening at Jahuri Talma in Jalpaiguri Sadar block, when the woman was going to her sister's place, the police said.

According to the woman, two youths stopped her cycle, grabbed her and took her to an under-construction building, a police officer said, adding, three other persons were waiting there and she was gang-raped.

Mumbai, Sep 26; PTI: A case of rape has been registered against Maharashtra BJP leader Madhu Chavan, police said Wednesday.

Chavan is the chairman of the Maharashtra Affordable Housing and Development Authority.

The case was registered at Chiplun police station on Tuesday on the instructions of a court and a probe into the matter is on, said Devendra Pol, Senior Police Inspector of Chiplun police station.

According to the complainant, Chavan allegedly assaulted her repeatedly between 2002 and 2017 on false promises, he said.

GORAKHPUR; 27 Sep 2018; GANASHAKTI: A lawyer who had filed a petition in court 11 years ago, against the Uttar Pradesh Chief Yogi Adityanath has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman.

Superintendent of Police (City) Vinay Singh said the woman was allegedly raped by Pervez Parvaz and another man Mahmood alias Jumman, said to be an 'occultist'. She had come seeking a cure for some illness, After a medical examination, it was confirmed that the woman had been raped. 

Muzaffarnagar, Sep 28 (PTI) A local court has transferred a case against BJP president Amit Shah for allegedly violating the model of conduct by making "objectionable" speeches in 2014 here to a Allahabad special court.

Police had already given a clean chit to Shah, but the court has not yet accepted the report as there was no reply from the complainant, the then assistant returning officer Ram Kumar, in the case, a prosecution lawyer said Thursday.

New Delhi, Sep 28 (PTI) The Supreme Court Friday refused to interfere with the arrest of five rights activists by the Maharashtra Police in connection with the Koregaon-Bhima violence case and declined to appoint a SIT to probe their arrest.

A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, in a 2:1 verdict, refused the plea seeking the immediate release of the activists.